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White Cat

29 May 2008 29 May '08

6:38 p.m.

Some emails start and end with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----", can people please disable that thing when emailing mailing lists. It looks quite ugly. - White Cat

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Ray Saintonge

29 May 29 May

7:13 p.m.

White Cat wrote:

Some emails start and end with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----", can people please disable that thing when emailing mailing lists. It looks quite ugly.

It's been around for a long while. Maybe even the people adding the tag aren't sure why. Nevertheless, "ugly" is not a big issue by itself. One could also consider top-posters who don't even bother to trim away multiple copies of the mailing list instructions from the bottom. Ec

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Usamah M. Ali

7:25 p.m.

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Some emails start and end with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----", can people please disable that thing when emailing mailing lists. It looks quite ugly. - White Cat

In case you don't know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy It's not about ugliness. Regards, Usamah

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Jon

8:50 p.m.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Usamah M. Ali wrote:

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Some emails start and end with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----", can people please disable that thing when emailing mailing lists. It looks quite ugly. - White Cat

In case you don't know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy It's not about ugliness. Regards, Usamah

I considered it, however, ugliness vs. php signature and/or encryption... the security aspect wins out. I will however start trimming per Ray Saintonge. Best, Jon

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Sean Barrett

30 May 30 May

3:39 a.m.

White Cat arranged electrons (back on 05/29/2008 11:38 AM) to indicate:

Some emails start and end with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----", can people please disable that thing when emailing mailing lists. It looks quite ugly. - White Cat

Find someone else to order about. -- Sean Barrett | "Oh, bugger," said Pooh, feeling a sean(a)epoptic.com | little more forthright than usual.

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White Cat

1 Jun 1 Jun

2:07 p.m.

I am not ordering anybody. - White Cat On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.com> wrote:

White Cat arranged electrons (back on 05/29/2008 11:38 AM) to indicate: Some emails start and end with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----", can

people please disable that thing when emailing mailing lists. It looks quite ugly. - White Cat

Find someone else to order about. -- Sean Barrett | "Oh, bugger," said Pooh, feeling a sean(a)epoptic.com | little more forthright than usual. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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